I’m Denied My Fundamental Human Right — Ikpeazu

Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said the Abuja court denied him his fundamental human right even as he described the political logjam in his state as “atomistic,” a situation where the state is at war with itself, which he said has created unnecessary tension.

Receiving some lawyers who visited him under the aegis of ‘Team of Concerned Lawyers,’ Ikpeazu lamented that political crisis has made the people of the state apprehensive and confused, which he blamed on the “ambition of one man.”

According to Ikpeazu, what is happening in the state is not about him, but about the office of the governor, insisting that it was a coup d’etat against him and the state.

“The Abuja High Court ruling denied me of the right to exercise my fundamental human right, which is the right of appeal.

“So, if it was a case of execution, I would have been killed without being given time to exercise my right of appeal before a court of competent jurisdiction, which is against the laws of fundamental human rights,” he said.

In his remarks, the leader of the team, Mr. Ogbonnaya Nwanunu explained that they had come to lend their support to the governor over the political crisis. Decrying the situation, he said: “We have come to rub minds with the governor with the aim of finding lasting solutions and the way forward to the current political crisis in the state.

“The only place where a man who did not contest election became a governor like what happened in one of the neighbouring states will never happen again as the electoral act has been amended.

“The case in question made the electoral act to be amended, so what is happening in the state where a man will dream of being a governor and wake up trying to make his dream a reality, is a rape of democracy and a coup d’état,” Nwanunu said.